Design Principles

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Balance:
First I noticed the balance because the horizon is in the very middle which, usually it eirther high or low. It spit the picture in half. This photo shows balance in a really classic way where, the cloud formations are directly mirrored in the water. I identified this because I realized one design was the reflection of another.
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Balance



  1. I feel like I'm in the "Simulation Room" from the movie "Spy Kid's 2001"(a kinetic vortex) where, there's neither up or down.
  2. I identified this because I looked for the hilly horizon, and realized one design was the reflection of another.
  3. This photo was problibly shot with a fast shudder speed to make the water look still and glassy(like a mirror).
  4. The focus of the image is the streaming light coming from behind the clouds. It's in the criteria of the rule of thirds and it's the lightest color in the sky.
  5. The background is a cool solid blue to make the clouds ranging from navy to white pop. The black horizon contrasts with any light in the sky.
  6. This is Waikawau Bay, New Zealand


Depth:
I know this shows depth because it feels like I'm walking into the picture. I think the photographer did this by capturing the tree's lined up and therefore getting smaller towards the end of the path which, is far away for me. It's also taken at a persons normal perspective.

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Depth
  1. This pictures great for the season, autumn. It was photographed in Germany but, it reminds me of hiking in the Gatineau, Quebec (where I visited when living in Ottawa, Ontario) when the trees where losing there red, orange leaves.

  3. The lights coming from the back of the photo and from lower ground than where, it's taken. Like the light is hiding, This gives the photo depth.
  4. the trees look like they shot up from a blanket of curly fresh fallen leaves. The pattern of the branches overhead create a canopy.
  5. The focus of the photo is the blue light which looks like it's "the light at the end of the tunnel".
  6. There's fog/grey in the background and color/focus in the foreground
7. A forest in germany durring august
Triangles:
It works because the closest fisher-man follows the rule of thirds and the triangles add interest.
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  1. This particular picture makes me feel lazy because it's like I'm just sitting in this boat, and he's paddling and looking for fish too.
  2. The object of the photo is facing straight-on where the clouds, other fisherman and current are point diagonally to the far back right corner.
  3. The light is coming from behind the photographer. It was nature light so, the day it was taken must have been partly cloudy.
  4. At first thought there wasn't much texture, because it's so geometrical. How ever it was shot in nature so, the ripples in the ocean and very fat, puffy clouds.
  5. The thing i focused in on first in this photo is the negative space between the first fisher-man's leg and ore.
  6. The back drop to this scene is the mass of blue sky and fluffy clouds.
  7. a fisherman in
Color-Space:It's simple and black and white so, all you see is the color and shapes.

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  1. Happy, free and playful. Like a child.
  2. The purple ballon follows the rule of thirds.
  3. There shadows, the lights coming from right above.
  4. The grains in the ground are all going straight across in one direction this creates movement like a film.
  5. The focus of the photo is the boys shape
  6. This image, i would say doesn't have a background it's 2D(flat).
  7. it's about someone's childhood in India
Dynamic "S": Contrast light/dark, that's why the curves are so dramatic.
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  1. Breathless, I find the barrenness suffocating.
  2. The rise and fall of the banks look like diagonals. The photographer with his tripod standing are almost in the line of the rule of thirds.Behind the photographer.
  3. Smoothness made completely by the power of the wind, some ripples in the foreground.
  4. The black and paige peeks in the top right corner.
  5. In the shadows a dark more harsh i think rocky range.
  6. A photographer in death-valley national park.

Element-Relationship:There's seemingly all the space in the world(an open road), but these horses are huddle so close together.
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  1. With me it raises a lot of questions, how did they get there? who do they belong too?
  2. The group(of ponies) is in the rule of thirds.
  3. It's dim lighting because of the clouds. The streams of light make it look like the heavens are about to open.
  4. The short green grass sprouting up defines the ground from the sky.
  5. Clearly the object of the photo is the ponies because it's a very calm day and the animals are acting chaotic there's a story there.
  6. The backgrounds grey fog.
  7. Ponies in the mongolian outback
Planes and Depth Levels:The difference in this photo between just depth and planes is the framing.

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  1. Relived if I had to name this picture it would be called "the calm after the storm". I'd say this is a scene of a disaster.
  2. The doors are staggered but, in such a way where your eye shot a direct diagonal to the sand in the far back of the picture(like a laster).
  3. It's coming from the roof light a sky-light, it looks heavenly.
  4. The sand is soft and wind-swept contrasting with the rough and solid walls.
  5. I can't help focusing just on that door, it suggests a visitor just left. The door is in the center of the frame and lite up by the sun.
  6. The background is cool dark blue.
  7. An abandoned house in Namibia.